Position(s):
Title A Fellow, Trinity College
Affiliated Lecturer
Department/Section:
French
Faculty of Modern & Medieval Languages & Linguistics
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Location:
Trinity College Cambridge CB2 1TQ United Kingdom
About:
Dr Oliver Mayeux completed his PhD in Theoretical and Applied Linguistics at the University of Cambridge in 2019 and currently holds a Title A (Junior Research) Fellowship at Trinity College. He is an Affiliated Lecturer in the French section, teaching on Fr1 (Introduction to French Literature, Linguistics, Film and Thought) and Fr2 (Structures and Varieties of French). Together with Professor Mari Jones, he co-convenes the Cambridge Endangered Languages and Cultures Group (CELC).
For up-to-date information, please check Dr Mayeux’s website.
Teaching interests:
- Language contact, variation and change;
- Linguistic fieldwork;
- French outside of France;
- Creoles and pidgins;
- Language endangerment and revitalization;
- Linguistic theory;
- Urban contact dialects;
- Areal interests: North America and the Carribean, West Africa, Vietnam.
